Submitted 1 month ago by VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Numen: Contest of Heroes is a game that sits at about 50% recommended on steam. I beat it years ago and really enjoyed myself, but I knew it was a unique fit for me. I only say “bad” so that we have common ground, but I value that experience.
What are “bad” games you enjoy?
Choro-Q High Grade 2 (a.k.a. Road Trip or Road Trip Adventure) for the PS2.
Just one more in a very long line of low-budget tie-in video games for a popular line of toy vehicles for children. Most western reviewers try to play it for the racing (which I admit is buggy and middling at best) and dismiss it as trash.
But it’s not about the racing. The racing is incidental; just a bit of action to break up the rest of the game and give you an overall goal to aim for. The real game is exploring a huge open world, meeting hundreds of NPCs, getting involved in their stories, solving mysteries, and digging up every last collectible in the game.
Enter the matrix was fun as hell, at least the first mission with all the bullet time, kung-fu and acrobatics. It wasn’t a good game, but it was everything I needed from a Matrix spinoff
Kane and Lynch!
I liked it way more than Gears of War, which was also a 2 player coop cover shooter released around the same time.
I just really liked the banter, the characters, the setting, the way that you could see how one of the characters was crazy because when you play coop as him he sees different things.
Loved every second of it when I played it, even in single player.
The Matrix Online. It was not a very good game mechanically, but the community and the monolith employees that would log on to role play major characters was the most fun I’ve ever had playing video games in my life.
Starfield is great if instead of wanting to play a good RPG with a great story, you wanna just play 1st person Diablo with guns in space.
Castlevania 64. Not even Legacy of Darkness, the original one. It gets a lot of hate I think just because the rest of the series has such awesome games and it gets held to a high standard but just as a N64 game I loved it.
Hard Times by MDickie.
It’s crap, but has generated some stupidly fun shit because of it
Life is Feudal. It had the potential to be something great, but ended dying in a hail of bad server coding and poorly implemented monetization.
Every so often I will reinstall it, find one of the free servers and just chill for hours on end.
Populous: The Beginning (1998). I don’t think it was actually bad, it’s just been forever. But man did we have fun with that.
I think I played it on ps1 lol
That’s a blast from the past! I used to play it on the Amiga in like 1990. Loved it too.
A couple I can remember really enjoying at the time that were not well reviewed and yeah probably are bad.
I don’t remember a whole lot about either of these but do remember playing them a lot.
Final Fantasy XIII I don’t think it’s actually a bad game, and thought so at the time too. There’s a lot of revisionist history with this one. I see so many discussions now of people being like yeah it’s a great game I love it. Where were all these people at when it came out? XIII-2 is…weird. I think I prefer XIII, but like both. I’ve never finished Lightning Returns but enjoyed what I played.
I live Eurojank. Gotta be my favorite genre. I’ve finished Of Orcs And Men lately, it’s a pretty bad game but I really enjoyed it.
Empire total war on release, the battle AI was absolute garbage to the point where you can just start as the Netherlands, walk over to Paris and take their country.
Before everyone researches fire by rank you could just spread out the infantry and have 2x firepower. Cavalry charges straight into you, pathfinding was so bad that you’d have a single column of men moving through a wide area. Fucking loved it though, it was a grand strategy spectacle and naval battles felt intense.
I had fun unlocking the pirates via config file edit and spamming out general units from a single buccaneer sword infantry and took over all of the Americas.
Peek-a-boo
Theres a fun top down Ice Hockey game called “Tape to Tape”
Its not a GREAT game, its a bit shallow but it is very fun.
I see this all the time on Linus Tech Tips and it looks great.
Hatred. I know it’s edgy for the sake of being edgy, and is not top gameplay, but I enjoy it as a fun passtime from time to time.
I loved Black Survival back in the day. It was early in the Battle Royal wave and it somehow made a visual novel style multiplayer BR fun for me, but any of my friends I convinced to try it absolutely despised it
I might have an existential crisis, but: I don’t think any game you enjoy is bad by definition. Or is this about Metacritic ratings being bad? How do you know a game is bad, if you enjoy it?
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had more fun with Jurassic Park: Trespasser and Die By the Sword than I should have just because they had early physics engines.